Portable garment driers



1962 T. o. MUENCH 3,065,859

PORTABLE GARMENT DRIERS Filed Aug. 4, 1959 r- INVENTOR as 6 TONI OLGAMUENCH will; u BY 41/1 ATTORNEY United States Patent 9 3,065,859PORTABLE GARMENT DRIERS Toni Olga Muench, 412 Washington St., EastLiverpool, Ohio Filed Aug. 4, 1959, Ser. No. 831,640 1 Claim. (Cl.211--86) This invention relates to portable garment driers usedparticularly for drying woolen and knitted garments.

It is an object of the invention to provide a garment drier which isreadily rolled for shipping or traveling when not in use and readilyunrolled and suspended between two chairs or other suitable supportingfixtures when it is desired to dry garments.

It is another object of the invention to vary the size of the dryingarea.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will be set forth in thedetailed description.

In the drawing accompanying and forming a part of this application:

FIGURE 1 is a plan view of the garment drier sup ported by suitablemeans in its fully extended condition to support its full complement ofgarments;

FIGURE 2 is a plan view showing the drier folded to support less thanitsfull complement of graments;

FIGURE 3 is a sectional view, on an enlarged scale, taken on the line3-3 of FIGURE 1 looking in the direction of the arrows to show aconnection between the drier proper and its suspension means;

FIGURE 4 is a sectional view, on an enlarged scale, taken on the line4-4 of FIGURE 2 looking in the direction of the arrows and showing theconnection shown in FIGURE 3; and

FIGURE 5 is a fragmentary view, on an enlarged scale, of the connectionshown in FIGURE 3.

The embodiment of the invention comprises a rectangular piece of meshedfabric, such as lace, as shown at 6, having finished or hemmed sideedges 7 and the opposite ends folded upon themselves and sewed, as at 8in FIG- URE 5, to form a hem 9 at each end of the piece of meshedfabric.

A pair of tubular members 10 are inserted in each hem 9 and the lengthof each tubular member 10 is less than half the width of the meshedfabric 6, so that the adjacent ends of the tubular members 10 of eachpair are spaced apart, as shown at 11 in FIGURE 1. The spacing of thetubular members 10 of each pair of members permits the folding of themeshed fabric 6 in half to de- 2 crease the amount of drying surface, asshown in FIG- URE 2.

The meshed fabric 6 is suspended to extend in a horizontal plane in itsfully extended or single ply condition or in its folded or two plycondition by two pairs of flexible members 12, such as cords. Each cordis extended through a tubular member 10 and a space in the meshedfabric, as shown at 13, and subsequently the ends of said cord areconnected together to form a loop, as shown in FIGURES 1 and 2. When themeshed fabric is suspended in its fully extended or single plycondition, as shown in FIGURE 1, each loop 12 is engaged with a suitablesupporting fixture or fixtures, such as a pair of books 14 secured in awall or the backs of a pair of chairs 15, so that the meshed fabric 6will be stretched in a horizontal plane.

When the meshed fabric 6 is in folded or two ply condition, as shown inFIGURE 2, the pair of loops at each opposite end of the fabric areengaged with the same supporting fixture or fixtures.

When the drier is not in use, the meshed fabric 6 is folded in half, thecords 12 are placed on the uppermost fold and the meshed fabric 6 isrolled to form a roll of not more than two and one-half inches.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

A garment drier comprising a substantially rectangular meshed fabrichaving hems at opposite ends, a pair of axially spaced tubularreinforcing members in each hem, each of said tubular reinforcingmembers being substantially half the width of its related ends, a loopof flexible suspension material extending through each reinforcingmember, each loop of flexible suspension material extending out of atubular member at the edge of the fabric and from between the tubularmembers in the space therebetween, said fabric being foldable on a linebetween the pairs of loops at either end thereof.

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